The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.
In-house attorneys are learning about the benefits of hiring a professional coach, such as helping to set goals for your career, maximizing your strengths and learning from your weaknesses, developing a personal brand, understanding your client and having corporate political savvy, networking within and outside your company, leadership development, and improving all facets of your communication skills. An executive coach can facilitate fast-tracking your career with proven stress-reducing tactics and valuable information not taught in school.
The mandate of the in-house lawyer is to limit risk while at the same time helping to grow the company's business. How do you protect the company and ensure legal compliance without being labeled the "sales prevention department?" How do you encourage Sales and Marketing departments to include Legal in their business processes at the appropriate time? This program will explore specific, practical strategies designed to align compliance/risk management objectives with the business goal of driving revenue.
In today's global economy, strategic alliances have taken center stage. Organizations of all shapes and sizes, across all geographic and industry sectors, are actively building partner-centric business models and designing partner-leveraged strategies. These corporate networks of alliance relationships pose some interesting legal challenges for in-house counsel. How are strategic alliances structured, negotiated and implemented? How should issues such as limitation of liability, protection of intellectual property and confidentiality be addressed?
If you are a managing attorney, are you aware of your obligations under the Rules of Professional Responsibility? Sure you manage your own ethics, but do you know that you are also responsible for ensuring the professional responsibility of the attorneys you supervise and the compliance with professional standards for paralegals, secretaries and other non-lawyer staff? Come to this session and learn your additional ethics responsibilities as a managing attorney.
More and more employees are qualifying for certain benefits deemed for domestic partners. This is a relatively new area for benefits coverage: here is a your chance to get a clear picture up close from your in-house peers as they share their expertise on current legal status of domestic partners and best practices. You will come away from this session with a better understanding of the legal rights, or lack thereof, of domestic partners and their family members to employee benefits and other HR matters.
Shareholders are important stakeholders for every company; however, recent events have shown the risks and legal liabilities a company faces when dealing with them. Recent regulatory and legislative developments, such as new SEC rules permitting electronic proxy distribution, and the New York Stock Exchange’s action to eliminate broker non-votes, add complexity to these matters.
Records management is often not viewed as a responsibility of the general counsel's office, but records management decisions, and mistakes, can often raise a host of legal issues. This basics program will introduce in-house counsel to the basic elements of a records management policy including the law, review recent regulatory and judicial decisions that should influence a company's records management, and target the types of information that require special attention when it comes to preserving or destroying corporate records. An emphasis will be placed on automated information.
This Guide to Conducting an Effective Internal Investigation (“Guide”) sets forth how to investigate effectively matters arising within the company that have been referred to the legal department. This Guide does not address how to determine whether a matter should be referred to the legal department as opposed to another corporate function. Even though this Guide is designed to provide this guidance to the legal department in conducting Investigations, many of the principals in the Guide are universal and could be applied to investigations conducted by non-lawyers.